Recent Blog Comments By Russ

FYI I am indeed working on a new version which is based on JSfiddle, it currently has collaboration features as well so people can work together on the code and will allow linking to code and using gists. Sadly my spare time is very limited, so it is taking me forever to get it finished.... read more »

Hi Ben, it is possible to get CF to work together with APE, I actually informed Helicon of this issue originally and informed them of this work around, so i'm surprised they didn't tell you about it. http://www.michaels.me.uk/post.cfm/getting-coldfusion-working-with-helicon-ape... read more »

@Aaron, If you have those tools Installed which I think most devs do now, it's not really an extra step. And tbh I think anyone who is not a newb must be used to the deficiencies in cf by now or switched to Railo :)... read more »

@Phil, You simply need to persist your object to avoid that scenario, which is what application scope is for. If you need to re-use the same object over and over on multiple pages then it would be daft not to persist it in memory. For objects that are specific to a user, such as a shopping cart, yo... read more »

@Shawn, a friendly suggestion is ok, but that is very rarely what happens and is certainly not how your coming across either, I cannot imagine the "do it this way or you are shit, your code is shit and should never ever touch code again" approach is really going to come across too well wit... read more »

@Shawn, If you disagree with Adobe's definition of ColdFusion (and Macromedia's before them, and Allaire's before them) and where you think it is headed, then I can only suggest you contact Adobe directly and take that up with them. Personally I like CFML and i'm more into supporting and growing ... read more »

@Shawn, I wont attempt to argue with you over what CF is, I can only suggest you go and read the cf docs at www.adobe.com and get confirmation from Adobe themselves about what CFML is classed as, it has been the same since the days of Allaire, you should also read up on what makes a framework a fram... read more »

@Matt, I am guesing you only do cf, cozz newbie or poor developers write spagetti code in all languages, cf has no patent on this. In fact spagetti code in cfml is still better than other languages due to the fact that cfml is in itself a framework which encapsulates much complex code in tags, whic... read more »

Sadly whenever oop comes up everyone forgets what made cf popular to begin with and what jeremy Allaire`s original goal was. Whenever anyone new to cf asks for help, oops is usually rammed down their throat and they are told they must use it or their code is crap. While oop has its place, it is more... read more »

If anyone is interested I have done a cfrespooler extension for the cfadmin which automatically handles your undelivered mail. I will also be adding a feature to this which will monitor the spool folder for problems and will first try resetting spool and then send out an alert either via CFMAIL wiht... read more »

The problem with publishing CF web services to be consumed by anything other than CF is that it generates an awful SOAP responses. Instead of <element1> <element2> <param1>value</param1> <param2>value</param2> </element> </element1>... read more »

it actually turned out to be a Red Herring Ben, I deleted the web service from the cfadmin and it then worked. So that is 3 hours of my life wasted debugging a bug that did not exist :-) As a side note to anyone reading, I believe this was sort of caching issue. This is a remote monitoring app and... read more »

The problem with ColdFusion authentication is that it only protects ColdFusion pages. Any non CF pages are still open to the world. .htaccess style auth protects everything in the folder, and you can also progmatically manage users/groups via CFML so you actually have MORE control than you do with a... read more »

I have a kind of similar problem I think. I am passing some XML as one of the arguments to my web service, it works fine on CF9 locally and CF8, but on live CF9 server it will not accept the XML and the web service fails with error below. I have tried passing the XML as an XMLDoc and as a string, s... read more »

Hey Ben, If you need to password protect areas of your sites then .htaccess is by far the best way. From what you have said I am guessing your are running IIS on your live server, in which case try IISPASSWORD, which works the same way as .htaccess. http://www.iistools.com/en/iispassword.html... read more »

nice article Ben. You can actually send email from a different address using GMAIL which may also solve your FAILTO addressing issues as well, here is how. http://www.askdavetaylor.com/configure_google_gmail_to_have_a_different_sender.html Also your problem with no receiving bounces when sending... read more »

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